Week 1

“I’m hoping that June will be the month for another story and picking back up on the 200 words a day ethos of earlier in the year.”

Oof. Hope and Action are, indeed, very different things. I did start off the month with an attempt to write a second story for the writing group anthology, but it only got 600 words in before I decided I didn’t like the idea. And before I could think of a new one, I started re-reading one of my novels (Dark Lord Davi in Red Dwarf) that’s in the editing queue. The good news is I came out of the week with an edited first chapter. The bad news is no new story this month.

Week 2

Week 2 was a busy one as I attended both the Penguin WriteNow seminar and the Strange Up North author event – a new event hosted, this year, at Waterstones in Leeds. I got to meet and chat with some traditionally published authors and meet other people who love SFF, which meant it was a great time! Even if I did forget to take any photos of the event for the blog. See only photo below:

Week 3

Week 3

Week 3 was another relatively quiet one. I managed to edit through another chapter on Dark Lord Davi in Red Dwarf and another few hundred words on the first draft of a different project. It was also my Dad’s 65th birthday this week, so we went to meet up with my parents for a bit to catch up and celebrate. It was great fun, but meant not much writing got done that weekend XD.

Week 4

Week 4 started with illness – I don’t know what I caught when meeting up with the ‘rents, but it did me over good and proper and I wasn’t feeling well for a lot of the week. Tie that in with a patented G. J. Dunn Ultimate Frisbee tournament (in which the protagonist, predictably, injures himself) and the week mostly was split between feeling sorry for myself/tidying up in the anticipation of visitors. I did have a great time though and didn’t even realise I was properly injured until into July, as it took a little while for all the various aches and pains to abate, revealing only those that were actually injuries.

It occurs to me now that what might be cool is a little table of writing progress to actually update on each month, so maybe I’ll go away and do that. But then again, the dog did just show up looking cute, so I might fuss her instead.

Until next time,

GJD